OBTAINING CREDIT FOR CLASSES
You may take a class or classes offered for graduate credit from an accredited college or university. You will have to pay for these credits, according to the fee charged by the university or college. You may take the credits in Gillette, or some place else; and credits acquired in this manner will apply toward horizontal movement on the salary schedule, i.e. for every fifteen credits you may move one horizontal column. Each time you move one column, you will earn additional pay that applies from that time onward.
You may take a class or classes for CCSD credit. Taking a class only for CCSD credit will not cost you anything and it will apply toward recertifying (getting your next certificate); but you can use only six of these credits for any particular lane change. All of the credits you earn to get your next teaching license can be CCSD, or all of them can be graduate credit, or some combination of the two.
In Campbell County we also have another way for you to earn credit. You may take what are called "Action Labs". Most action labs are three hours and meet one time. Five action labs equal one CCSD credit. These also cost you nothing, because eventually the action lab credits become CCSD credits. Action lab credits can, however, also be taken for University of Wyoming graduate credit at a rate of $50 per credit. If you opt to take a class for University of Wyoming credit, please make sure you bring your checkbook with you to the first class to register and pay for the fees. The university has a new policy now that all class registrations must be sent to them right after the first class. If you know you will miss the first class session, please plan on taking the class at another time.
For example, to move from the BA column to a BA+15 column, you could only use six CCSD credits. The remaining nine credits would have to be graduate classes. All credits earned as CCSD credit are automatically also earned as PTSB.
Finally, you can be reimbursed by CCSD for one half of the cost of graduate level classes you take, up to $45 per credit hour. For example, if you take a three credit class and each credit costs $50, the class would cost you $150. The school district will reimburse you $75. In order to get this reimbursement, however, you must fill out a reimbursement form (these can be picked up at your school or at SD) before class starts. Then after you receive your grade turn it in with your proof of payment to the Human Resources Department.
If you have any questions email or call Michele Wenzel - 307-687-1666.
"The state of Wyoming provides Hathaway Merit and Need-Based scholarships to all eligible Wyoming students attending the University of Wyoming or Wyoming community colleges."